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Graduate Education
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
GPA: 3.97/4.0
Undergraduage Education
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Instute of Technology, Kharagpur
GPA: 8.49/10.0
Research Interest
Computer Architecture
Extra-Performance Architecture: Reliability, Security

PhD: 2005 - 2010 (UCSB)
B.Tech: 2001 - 2005 (IIT KGP)
Publications
Conferences:
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[ISCA'11] Fighting Fire with Fire: Modeling the Data Center Scale Effects of Targeted Superlattice Thermal Management,
Susmit Biswas, Mohit Tiwari, Luke Theogarajan, Timothy P. Sherwood,Frederic T. Chong,
to appear in the proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architectures (ISCA'11)
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[IPDPS'11] Exploiting Data Similarity to Reduce Memory Footprints,
Susmit Biswas, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz, Diana Franklin, Tim Sherwood, Frederic T. Chong,
to appear in the proceedings of 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'11)
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[MICRO'10] Minimal Multi-Threading: Finding and Removing Redundant Instructions in Multi-Threaded Processors,
Guoping Long, Diana Franklin, Susmit Biswas, Pablo Ortiz, Jason Oberg, Dongrui Fan, Frederic T. Chong,
in proceedings of 43rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro 43), 2010 [slides]
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[ISPAN'09] Conflict-Avoidance in Multicore Caching for Data-Similar Executions,
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Timothy Sherwood, Frederic T. Chong,
in proceedings of the International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2009),Kaoshiung, Taiwan, December 2009
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[ISCA'09] Multi-Execution: Multicore Caching for Data-Similar Executions,
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Alan Savage, Ryan Dixon, Timothy Sherwood, Frederic T. Chong,
in proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architectures (ISCA'09), June 2009 [slides]
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[NANOARCH'07] A Pageable, Defect-Tolerant Nanoscale Memory System,
Susmit Biswas, Tzvetan S. Metodiev, Fredric T. Chong and Ryan Kastner
in proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH'07), October 2007
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[ICCAD'07] Combining Static and Dynamic Defect-Tolerance Techniques for Nanoscale Memory Systems,
Susmit Biswas, Tzvetan Metodiev, Gang Wang, Fredric T. Chong and Ryan Kastner,
in the proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD'07), November 2007
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[IISWC'06] Characterization of Error-Tolerant Applications When Protecting Control Data,
Darshan D. Thaker, Diana Franklin, John Oliver, Susmit Biswas, Derek Lockhart, Tzvetan S. Metodi and Frederic T. Chong,
in proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterication (IISWC-2006), October, 2006 < br />
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[VLSID'06] An Approach to Architectural Enhancement for Embedded Speech Applications
Soumyajit Dey, Susmit Biswas, Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Anupam Basu,
in proceedings of the 19th International Conference on VLSI Design 2006, Hyderabad (pp. 371-376)
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[VLSID'06] Sanyog: An Iconic Communication Aid for Children Suffering from Cerebral Palsy and Motor Neuron Disorders,
Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Soumyajit Dey, Pawan Saraswat, Susmit Biswas, Vijay Srinivas Nori, Samit Bhattacharya, Anupam Basu,
in proceedings of the 19th International Conference on VLSI Design 2006, Hyderabad
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[ACCV'06] Object Tracking Using Background Subtraction And Motion Estimation In MPEG Video ,
Ashwani Aggarwal, Susmit Biswas, Sandeep Singh, Shamik Sural, A. K. Majumdar,
in proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV), Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3852, Part II
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[VLSID'04] OaSis: An Application Specific Operating System for an Embedded Environment,
Gurashish Singh Brar, Susmit Biswas, Sudipta Kundu, Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Pratik Worah, Anupam Basu,
in proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design and 3rd International Conference on Embedded Systems, January 5-9, 2004, Mumbai, India
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[VLSID'04] Katha-Mala: A Voice Output Communication Aid for the Children with Severe Speech and Multiple Disorders (SSMI),
Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Saptarshi Biswas, Pratik Worah, Ramasish Das, Susmit Biswas, Anupam Basu,
in proceedings of the 17th International Conference on VLSI Design and 3rd International Conference on Embedded Systems, January 5-9, 2004, Mumbai, India
Dissertation:
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Susmit Biswas, Exploiting Data Similarity in Multicore Systems, PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, June, 2010
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Susmit Biswas, Object Tracking In Compressed Domain: A Feature Oriented Approach, B.Tech thesis, IIT Kharagpur, May, 2005
Workshops:
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[MEDEA'09] PSMalloc: Content Based Memory Management for MPI Applications,
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Timothy Sherwood, Frederic T. Chong, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz,
in the MEDEA 2009 Workshop, September, 2009, in conjunction with PACT'09
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[WEED'09] Energy Conservation in Datacenters through Cluster Memory Management and Barely-Alive Memory Servers,
Vlasia Anagnostopoulou, Susmit Biswas, Alan Savage, Ricardo Bianchini, Tao Yang, Frederic T. Chong,
in the Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED'09), June 20, 2009, in conjunction with ISCA'09
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[PESPMA'08] Preliminary Experiments on Similar Executions with Reduced Off-Chip Accesses in Multi-core Processors,
Susmit Biswas, Frederic T. Chong, Diana Franklin and Timothy Sherwood,
2008 Workshop on Parallel Execution of Sequential Programs on Multi-core Architectures (PESPMA'08), Bejing, China, June 22, 2008, in conjunction with ISCA'08
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[NSC'07] Efficient Storage of Defect Maps for Nanoscale Memory,
Susmit Biswas, Tzvetan Metodiev, Fredric T. Chong, Ryan Kastner and Timothy Sherwood,
Workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC-4), San Diego, June 2007, in conjunction with the ISCA'07
Internships
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July - September 2008: ADEPT Group, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Content aware memory management to reduce footprint of MPI applications in multicore systems.
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June - September 2009: Returning intern to LLNL
Teaching
I worked as teaching assistant for 5 courses at UCSB.